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by sdfjkl 14y ago
Be a grumpy bastard. Someone taps me on the shoulder, I'm grumpy the first time, I growl the second time and if there is a third time I'll shout at them. Hasn't come to the shouting yet (although one guy got pretty close, but I just glared
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by sdfjkl 14y ago
The built-in one is agonizingly slow to open.
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by sdfjkl 14y ago
The lesson here is that default settings are very important and you should spend some thought on them.
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by sdfjkl 14y ago
Interesting shift between homicides and suicides. Suicide by offending an armed drunk?
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by sdfjkl 14y ago
One thing I found very surprising when moving from Germany to the UK was that your average UK "beat cop" doesn't carry a firearm. They call in armed police when needed, but this seems to often result in delays in pursuing criminals and some
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Curiosity: Which shoes?
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
I think he means the (obscure) risk of confusing it with the somewhat elderly Python 2.5.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
I've found myself saying "not my job" the other day. I took this as a confirmation that it's time to leave the company (something I felt was approaching for some time now). This is because I'm very much the guy that "makes shit work" (comes
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Sounds like the classic large corporate environment to me.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
I've been to one of the LOCOG[1] briefings for (potential) suppliers a few years ago. The rules and regulations were absolutely ridiculous. One of the most memorable images shown to us was that of a shop window featuring (amongst a host of
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
If you just want to read , Amazon's free Kindle.app is by far the best Mac reader. Use KindleGen[1] to convert .epub to .mobi (or scroll up, someone's already done this here). However, be warned that it won't allow you to copy text even fr
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
A virus that the hardware it's shipped with cannot execute. You have to take the CF card out of it, stick it into your Windows machine, then run the virus manually (assuming that anyone who's administering modular switches of this price cla
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Having added my own "site search" for an existing project using django-haystack + Xapian, I was surprised how easy the whole implementation was (spent about a day on it, plus a bit of tweaking). Of course that was a comparatively tiny index
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
That's odd, I leave mine running for weeks at a time and it never hangs.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
I've been running this on a Mac Mini connected to my HDTV for some time now and it's become my favorite media player, mainly due to it's smooth integration with the Apple remote control and keeping track of what I've already watched. It rea
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Just one more example of why you shouldn't use private communication without end-to-end encryption.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Step 42) When you go public with your product, make sure your infrastructure can handle the load so you don't suffer a failed launch. Many users will not give you a second chance.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Sewers are often below several meters of concrete/rock/earth, interwoven with steel reinforcements, metal tubing, wires, power conduits and other stuff that would make for very poor wireless reception even when directly above the ratbot. Th
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
I meant more noisy.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Reddit? Or maybe not.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Excellent, soon computer-controlled companies can automatically sue each other. "The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Uhm, where are the numbers?
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Just today in the IT department (this is why it's good to occasionally work in the office): "So my old PC at home finally bought it. I've seen you're all using Macs (this guy is observant) and I've been wondering if I should get one of them
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Warrior Raiel.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Wouldn't you be much more productive if you were well rested (sleeping in a car isn't all that comfortable in my experience) and not constantly worried about hunting down the next shower, even discounting the time you'll spend on doing so?
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
There's pricing for some of their products. For "small business" it makes perfect sense. For "Enterprise" the "contact us so our salesperson can make false claims[1] about what our software does and gauge how much money he can screw you ove
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
How is this different from the 2to3 tool included with Python?
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
What are the side effects of this? Has anyone here actually tried it?
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
Can't I just not have a linkedin account? Seems to work for Facebook.
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by sdfjkl 15y ago
It's MS Exchange's web-frontend (OWA), which doesn't play nice with most browsers (last I checked it degraded into some "basic functionality" mode when using anything but IE, although that was a while ago). FourTen Technologies is his compa

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